Chapter 45 – Deception.
Donar and Shalby, unable to get any information from Truth due to Pan’s interference, talked while watching the wagon where Truth was trapped.
“Now what? That bastard seems to be holding on.”
Shalvi clicked her tongue as she saw Pan wandering around despite the strict security of Odur. Pan is blatantly chasing people approaching by acting menacingly and driving them away, so not a single ant can be seen in the wagon, which was already few people passing by.
“I can’t help it. I have no choice but to give up on listening to Truth. And if he really did, I’ll have to think about lying.”
“That’s what it is.”
Shalby scratched the back of her head in frustration. It was a meaningless action indeed because of her helm. Donar watched him like that and asked.
“Do you think Truth is not the culprit?”
“Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“No, I’m quite close with him, but you don’t seem to have had much of a conversation. It’s strange that you’re talking about something like this first.”
He crossed his arms as if pondering Donard’s words and pondered.
“Is that what you think?”
“Hey, are you saying you don’t know that?”
When he said it as if it were absurd, Shalby laughed.
“It can’t be. It’s just something. It’s like an occupational disease. Do you remember that I was often in charge of arresting prisoners among prison guards?”
“No.”
“Eh. You stone-haired bastard.”
Shalvi, who had been punched in the back of the head by Donar’s resolute denial, took her breath for a moment and continued her words.
“Anyway, guilt or innocence, you need proof to be freed.”
Shelby still remembered her. Most of the prisoners he dragged claim to be innocent, and even if there are many people who provide evidence, even if there is no evidence, they are sentenced to prison due to the insistence of just one person, and they are sentenced to prison or in fact sentenced to death. At that time, he had no power and was busy with his life. He lived like a machine that obeyed their commands. In some cases, the opposite was also significant. Those who committed heinous crimes were often released for trivial reasons.
As a prison guard, he always watched and lived with those who were branded as sinners. Even if the conscience crumpled deep in the heart pierces and disfigures the heart, pretending not to know even if it knows for a living, pretending not to have feelings even though it has emotions. At that time, he couldn’t be so grateful for his armor and helmet, which were always cramped. Because if I just lowered my visor to hide his face, I could look just like everyone else and look like an expressionless steel doll.
“Odur will be like me.”
“Audur too?”
“That guy is from the same prison guard as me.”
Or why would he have been spying on Truth, he scolded Donnar.
“Anyway, I really didn’t want to use this method. It can’t be helped because this is the only thing left.”
“What? Was there another way?”
He said he did too, but he shouldn’t have told me earlier, and Donar warmed up. Shalby stopped him.
“First of all, it’s not like you’re going to beat the board and break into it. Stop warming up.”
“Wasn’t it?”
“Yes, what we need now is objective information.”
Even if you go in like that and get information from Truth, it will only become a subjective story in the end, so you can only refer to it. However, there is no definitive evidence left. If so, we have no choice but to gather more diverse stories and find an answer that is as close to the truth as possible.
“I’ve heard the suspect’s opinion. Shouldn’t we also hear the victim’s opinion?”
“…Shalby, are you insane?”
As Donar frowned, Shalby let out a sigh of hers.
“I know very well what I said.”
Shalvi said she would take all the responsibility herself in case of emergency, and she let Donar lead. Donnar grabbed him by the shoulder.
“No, he is also my friend.
“Ha, stupid bastard.”
The place they arrived was Truth’s wagon, where Belka and Usher were still staying.
“So you came to see us?”
“Okay.”
Currently, they were kneeling in front of Usher and Belka.
“Leave now! Are you even suspecting Belka?!”
Of course, they were expecting this kind of reaction, but they couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at Usher’s momentum that seemed to eat him at any moment. They came prepared to be hated through this incident, but being hated by a child was quite heartbreaking for them. In the end, when they tried to stand up, thinking that if they asked more, they would only dig deeper into their wounds.
“Usher, it doesn’t matter.”
Belka, the girl who until now had covered her face with a mask and kept her mouth shut like a doll, opened her mouth. It took a while for them to admire that beautiful voice again, and they looked at the girl at the words contained in that voice.
“But Belka, if you’re going to pass it off as okay again.”
“It’s not like that this time. They just want the truth.”
The girl stopped Usher from kicking them out and asked them.
“What answer do you guys want?”
Donar asked, swallowing her saliva.
“Are you sure it was Truth that did that to you?”
Shalby quietly waited next to Donnar for the girl’s answer. They are already prepared to be hated by the children. I hoped that the girl’s answer would be a sure key. Eventually, when her mouth opened. What was left of them was an even more vague hope.
“Well, it seems like it happened while sleeping. There’s no way I can remember…”
Now Donard was leading the procession, driving the lead carriage. He gripped the reins of Hildisbini, a gigantic creature resembling a horse in general, and, considering their stamina, signaled speed with a flag, his armor was wrapped in a cloth stained with red sand, like other coachmen. Even in the dust that flew every time Hildisbini hit the hard sandy ground, he skillfully drove the wagon and recalled the girl’s answer.
“I don’t know if he really did it to me. All I can be sure of is the feeling that someone did that to my body.”
In the end, they had to leave the carriage with a broken heart. But Donar knew it wasn’t over yet. He was none other than the ones who hadn’t asked Sif, who acted as if he knew what Ruth was doing and led him to Truce’s carriage. But there was no time to ask Sif, as the time to drive the carriage had arrived and it was Donard’s turn to pull the carriage.
“Ha, that’s going crazy.”
No, I had plenty of time to ask her about her facts. But he couldn’t. He already guessed what had happened, but he didn’t have the confidence to ask. If really, if what he’s guessing is true. How on earth should he treat Sif, and how should he see him? He drove the wagon with mixed feelings.
“It’s frustrating. I’m going to search. I can’t even open the window.”
Rogi couldn’t even think of answering the words of his friend who was muttering such a thing next to him, and in a daze he recalled the story he had heard. It was really by chance that he heard what the coachmen were talking about. At the story of Truth’s death, I couldn’t stop my confused thoughts and pounding heart. Why? Why did the story turn out that way? It was when Rogi was lost in thought.
“Come to think of it. Did you guys hear the news?”
He exclaimed as if he had remembered someone, then spoke in a whisper as if he were telling a secret. It seemed like he was paying attention to the adults in the wagon, but the adults were already asleep. In fact, the wagons they rode were decided, but the children gathered in the wagon with friendly children for the reason that they wanted to play with their friends. The adults were annoyed by the children who were making a fuss in the wagon, and the clever children took advantage of the adults’ ideas.
It was like adults didn’t care as long as there were adults of the same age in the wagon. In this way, they were doing secret things or talking among themselves in the carriage of an adult who often fell asleep due to severe motion sickness.
“They raped that bastard, Truth.”
“What? That stupid old man? Who?”
The adults seem to have discussed keeping the news from the children, but the children already have a knack for picking up the words that come out of the mouths of the adults who are light-mouthed.
“There are some newcomers this time. One of them is the girl wearing a mask.”
“That kid? Wow, isn’t he crazy? That one?”
“But even just looking at her, she was incredibly pretty.”
“Then have you seen her bare face? I was curious about her bare face.”
“I’m a bit envious of that man for doing it with a kid like that.”
However, at the words of the children who spat out the slightest weight, Logi felt a stabbing pain in his heart. The children seemed reluctant and envious. Children longed for adults, and what they did looked cool. So while I wanted to be relieved and boast a little, I doubted that I could really envy even such a thing, and I got goosebumps at myself for thinking that. Rogi remembered what he had been doing. Clearly, it felt better than anything the boy had ever been through. But his words also come to mind.
“Don’t get me wrong, now you’re an accomplice too? If you tell anyone, you’re done too.”
I felt like I was going to vomit at any moment.
“I’m getting some sleep.”
“Why? Are you sick?”
“I think so.”
After giving a rough answer to the child asking about his condition, Logi lay down on a nearby bed and thought.
‘It’s the worst.’
During the hours of the sun, the procession of carriages ran and ran without rest. Regardless of whether someone wanted it or not, the sun was slowly going down, and eventually, as the sun was setting, the procession of carriages slowly stopped after making a full turn as planned. The coachmen who came down from the high coachman’s seat looked around as if they were wary of something, then knocked or opened the wagon door, and the people who had been in the wagon for most of the day came out one by one and relieved themselves. Among them was Usher.
“Huh, I don’t know if I can sleep this much during the day.”
“Since motion sickness consumes a lot of stamina. I can’t help it.”
Worried about him, who fell asleep to avoid her motion sickness as the carriage moved, Belka tidied up his disheveled clothes and said,
“But today’s motion sickness wasn’t that bad.”
True to Usher’s words, he didn’t suffer from motion sickness today. It wasn’t that he didn’t get motion sickness at all, but his dizziness, choking, and feeling like he was going to vomit at the slightest smell ended up being a simple sleep.
“That’s amazing. Until yesterday, he acted as if he would die right away because of motion sickness.”
Even Sif, who had seen how sick Usher was from yesterday, seemed curious to see him like that. He was so sick of motion sickness that even when the carriage was moving, he clung to Belka and asked if they could not ride to Lantua by themselves. Fortunately, his motion sickness was lessened, but in a strange way.
“Thanks to Belka!”
Strange as his words may sound, Sif recalled seeing him suffering from motion sickness noticeably relieved just by stroking a girl’s knee like a pillow. Sif had a lot to say in an ambiguous and strange way to say anything, but the momentary thought made her eyes wide open. She wasn’t sure, but as she thought, the children were able to roam the wilderness on horses that were weak in the heat, the girl’s interest in magic books, and Usher’s lessening of her motion sickness. It was because.
The identity of the girl is probably. When Sif thought that far. She realized that the golden light of the girl was looking at her. She got a creepy feeling as if she had read her thoughts, but the girl just held her index finger to her lips as if to tell her it was her secret. Soon after, the girl put on her mask to hide her face, but it was when Sif was staring blankly at her Belka in a bewitching color that could hardly be thought of as a young girl.
“Sister? Sister!”
“Oh, why?”
When her Sif came to her senses at the sound of Usher’s voice calling her, her Belka was no longer looking at her. Instead, Usher was watching her anxiously.
“Is your sister also sick?”
“I just have something to think about.”
Embrace his answer, she turned her back to having to prepare her meal. As much as possible, I hoped that the children would eat safely in the wagon, but the trial begins after the meal, after the children are sent to the wagon or put to sleep.
“Usher.”
“Uh, why?”
Usher turned his head at the voice of the girl calling him, and saw her stop in her tracks. Sif said he was preparing her meal, and she left first.
“I’ve got something to see.”
“Are you talking about the bathroom?”
“No, but it is necessary.”
Belka’s words were unexpected, but her actions and words were familiar to Usher. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to know what she was doing when she said that, but she was stubborn about not letting the girl know when she said that.
“Aren’t you going to tell me what’s going on?”
“Huh.”
Again, Belka nodded her head. Even so, Usher couldn’t rebuke her. Every time the girl said this, she seemed to be hurt by her own words. She left only her word for Usher to stay with her men who had come looking for them, and she walked away.
“Hey! He’s over there.”
Way to eat. Rogi was startled by his friend’s voice and looked where he was looking. Sure enough, at the end of that line of sight, for some reason, I saw a red girl standing alone. Cold to think of fire, soft to think of blood, sweet and beautiful girl who just thinks of a red flower. That dark red dress was covering her body now, but just looking at it reminded Rogi of the soft white skin underneath and the secret valley of the girl who had swallowed his things. It was when Rogi panicked because he felt her penis swell in her pants.
“Huh? He looks like he’s coming here?”
At that, she was startled and lifted her head. I saw a girl walking slowly towards this place. At that moment, Rogi remembered that her girl’s eyes met her own. Even though she couldn’t be because of the mask hiding the girl’s face. Rogi got goosebumps at the feeling that those gazes were rebuking him. Cold sweat broke out at the thought that the girl knew what she had done. She wanted to deny no, but if not, why was she coming this way? His heart started beating fast at the fact that she was approaching him.
I couldn’t tell if it was because of excitement or guilt. The thought that he just had to run away filled his head.
“Hey! Where are you going all of a sudden?!”
He heard his friend’s voice calling him from behind, but Rogi didn’t stop running. He felt that if he didn’t run away, the girl would tell everyone what he had done in front of everyone. I ran like a frightened rabbit and arrived at the front of the wagon I had been riding today.
“Shit.”
Normally, I wouldn’t be out of breath like this. Perhaps because of his hasty running, he quickly caught his breath and let out a weary breath. When it came to that girl, Rogi’s heart thumped. I know that this won’t solve anything.
“What am I doing?”
Logi suddenly felt sorry for himself. The fact that the girl reproaches herself and comes to her could have just coincidentally overlapped. He guessed it, and he ran away. If not, how strange must he have looked in the girl’s shoes, having run away as if he were running away? Since when did he become so fearful of himself?
“Let’s go back.”
He sighed and was about to return to his friend who was waiting for him. My body froze at the sound of small footsteps and the sound of someone exhaling wearily.
“Haa, Cough Cough! Why are you running away?”
When Logi turned his head to the girl’s voice that followed, he saw the red girl, Belka, exhaling exhaustedly. Rogi’s heart started beating wildly at the sight of the girl asking him, coughing as if choking, even though he was not in good physical strength, even though other children could easily run around. Flutter? Guilty? Those feelings were faint. Fear is what makes her heart beat the loudest right now.
“Well, then why did you come after me?”
I thought that maybe. What if the fact that the girl was approaching him was not an illusion? What if the fact that the girl was looking at him was true, even the rebuke in that gaze? Her heart beat so loud it felt like a big drum was beating in her ears.
Haha, I want to ask you something.”
But even now, even the ever-increasing heartbeat could not stop the girl’s sweet voice from entering his ears.
“What? What the hell are you curious about!?”
A moment’s thought would make Rogi realize how nervous he was in answering and how suspicious his actions seemed, but he didn’t have the time left for that. The girl’s eyes, her actions, she was too afraid to ask him. The moment the girl opened her mouth felt so slow. She said the girl didn’t open her mouth. I was hoping that the question I was asking wasn’t what he thought it would be. But the girl’s mouth was open. Like the unchanging fact that the sun rises and sets.
“You… Aren’t going to say anything like this?”
The girl’s tone was somehow strange, so I couldn’t understand it, but I could understand it because Rogi was the person involved. Belka had told her that he knew what she had done. At that moment, it felt like something had snapped in her head.
Haha!”
It was not an illusion. She thought that the girl was approaching him, the gaze she thought was looking at her, and the rebuke contained in it. This girl she knows everything and she came to herself. So that’s what she says to say everything. Thinking like that, I felt like it would be better now. She didn’t want to know any more what made her feel so tormented.
“You… Ugh!?”
The girl seemed to have something more to say to herself, but Rogi didn’t want to listen to her anymore. As he gripped her girl’s wrists, she was unable to speak in her pain, but Rogi dragged her girl into the wagon. Should have done this from the beginning. She has already done it, but adding more won’t change anything, she says to herself.
